 That whistle garrisoned the glen At once with full five hundred men, As if the yawning hill to heaven A subterranean host had given. Watching their leader's beck and will, All silent there they stood, and still. Like the loose crags, whose threatening...  The Lady of the Lake: A Poem - Side 124af Walter Scott - 1826 - 282 siderFuld visning - Om denne bog
 | Henry H. Methuen - 1846 - 352 sider
...on each other in the greatest confusion, and often standing balanced on a base not half a foot wide, As if an infant's touch could urge Their headlong passage down the verge — SCOTT. which P and I often did, producing fearful they encircle, a peculiarly desolate and chaotic... | |
 | Richard Green Parker - 1849 - 446 sider
...o'er the hollow pass, As if an infant's touch could urge Their headlong passage down the verge, 25 With step and weapon forward flung, Upon the mountain...Benledi's living side, Then fixed his eye and sable brow 30 Full on Fitz-James, — " How say'st thou now? These are Clan-Alpin's warriors true : And, Saxon,... | |
 | James Browne - 1849 - 570 sider
...beck und will, All silent there they stood, and still. Like the loose crags whose threatening mass Lny tottering o'er the hollow pass, As if an infant's...verge, With step and weapon forward flung, Upon the mountain-ride they hung. Lady of the Lake, Canto V \t. From the feeling of self-respect which the urbanity... | |
 | Richard Green Parker - 1849 - 466 sider
...leader's beck and will, 20 All silent there they stood, and still. Like the loose crags, whose threatening mass Lay tottering o'er the hollow pass, As if an...could urge Their headlong passage down the verge, 25 With step and weapon forward flung, Upon the mountain side they hung. The mountaineer cast glance... | |
 | John Hanbury Dwyer - 1850 - 318 sider
...brand, And every tuft of broom gives life To plaided warrior arm'd for strife. That whistle garrison'd the glen At once with full five hundred men, As if...verge, With step and weapon forward flung, Upon the mountain-side they hung. The mountaineer cast glance of pride Along Benledi's living side, Then fixed... | |
 | Roualeyn Gordon-Cumming - 1850 - 434 sider
...piled one above another, some of which seemed so balanced upon their exalted and narrow pedestals, "As if an infant's touch could urge Their headlong passage down the verge." A light and feathery fringe of dwarfish trees and varieties of gigantic cacti adorned the sides and... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1852 - 594 sider
...leader's beck and will, All silent there they stood and still. Like the loose crags whose threatening mass Lay tottering o'er the hollow pass, As if an...verge, , With step and weapon forward flung, Upon the mountain-side they hung. The mountaineer cast glance of pride Along Benledi's living side, Then fixed... | |
 | 1852 - 782 sider
...will, AH silen; there they stood and still. Like the loose crags whose threat'ning mass Lay tott'ririg o'er the hollow pass, As if an infant's touch could...verge, With step and weapon forward flung, Upon the mountain-side they hung. The mountaineer cast glance of pride Along Benledi's living side ; Then'fix'd... | |
 | J H. Aitken - 1853 - 378 sider
...brand, And every tuft of broom gives life To plaided warrior arm'd for strife. That whistle garrison'd the glen At once with full five hundred men, As if...verge, With step and weapon forward flung, Upon the mountain-side they hung. The mountaineer cast glance of pride Along Benledi's living side, Then fix'd... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1854 - 892 sider
...the loose crags, whose threatening mase Lay tottering o'er the hollow pass, As if an it it: mi '.- touch could urge Their headlong passage down the verge, With step and weapon forward filing, Upon the mountain-side they hung. Tito Mountaineer cast glance of pride Along Beuledi's living... | |
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